Advantages: Profound period drama with wonderful cinematography and soundtrack Disadvantages: Dubbed singing voices. Little dialogue.
The Man who Cried is a rather strange film which despite a number of shortcomings still managed to captivate me - I loved it! The film, made in 2000 and released on DVD in 2003, is a period drama with music intergral to its plot. As the title suggests, there is an emotional storyline however the title is a little misleading. There are two prominent male characters, both of whom do cry. But the film is in fact about a young girl, Fegel aka Suzie (who ... ...her roots. The film opens with Fegel, as a wide-eyed engaging child, happily playing hide and seek with her devoted father in a Jewish farming village in 1927 Russia. 5-year-old Claudia Lander-Duke, plays the young Fegel, with an awesome ability. No-one could remain unmoved as she bewilderedly watches her father leaving for America in search of work and fortune, or as she is traumatically separated from her grandmother when her village is attacked ...
MAFARRIMOND 22.04.2006
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Advantages: a great soundtrack, majestic photography, Disadvantages: sloppy plot, cliched, pretentious
The Man Who Cried was written and directed by Sally Potter, (Yes, Orlando) and released in the year 2000. It stars Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp and Cate Blanchett. It begins in rural 1920's Russia in a poor but closely knit Jewish family. The father leaves for America and shortly afterwards the family's village is attacked and destroyed. His little girl, Fegele, survives and manages to end up alone on an immigrant ship to England clutching a photograph ... ...together they find work in the opera where Lola falls for Italian opera star Dante, (John Turturro), and Suzie is smitten by the smouldering Cesar - a gypsy played by Johnny Depp. As war looms Suzie must choose between her love for Cesar and her own safety and decide whether it is worth continuing the search for her long lost father.
From the opening scenes there is the sense that this film has pretensions to be a romantic epic in the style of Dr ...
noodlebutty 23.03.2006
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